Modifier

 

Read the following text and use modifiers as directed in the blank spaces. 

     0.5×10 = 5

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8.         Once a cook roasted a duck for his master. The roast looked (a) — (use an intensifier) delicious. He failed to resist (b) — (pre-modify the noun with a possessive) temptation and ate one of its drumsticks. When his master sat down (c) — (use infinitive), he quickly noticed the (d) — (pre-modify the noun) leg and asked him  about it. The cook replied that the duck had (e) — (pre-modify the noun) leg only. The master said that there was no such thing as a one (f) — (pre-modify the noun) duck. He insisted that this duck had only one leg. (g) — (pre-modify the verb with a present participle) angry, the master threatened (h) — (post-modify the verb with an infinitive) him from his job. The cook looked out of the window and saw some ducks (i) — (post-modify the noun with a present participle) outside in the yard. He saw one duck (j) — (post-modify the noun) on one leg folding the other one within its body.

 

9.         Nelson Mandela (a) — (use an appositive to post-modify noun) guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to a (b) —  (use adjective to pre-modify the noun) democracy, as (c) — (use determiner as pre-modifier) icon of peace and reconciliation, who came to embody justice around the world. Imprisoned for nearly (d) — (use a quantifier)  decades for his fight against white minority rule, Mandela (e) —  (pre-modify the verb) lost his resolve to fight for his (f) — (possessive as pre-modifier) emancipation. He was determined to bring down apartheid while avoiding a (g) — (use adjective as pre-modifier) war. His prestige and charisma helped him (h) — (use bare infinitive)  the support of the world. ‘l hate (i) — (modify the noun) discrimination (j) — (use an intensifier) intensely and in all its manifestations.’ declared Mandela.

 

10.       The people of Bangladesh have expressed their shock (a) — (post-modify the verb) at the reaction of the Pakistan Parliament. Pakistan strongly protested the execution of two (b) — (pre-modify the noun) collaborators who committed crimes against humanity on their own people in 1971 There is a demand for apology from (c)  —  (use a noun adjective to pre-modify the noun) government for the crimes of its army during the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Recently Pakistan’s National Assembly may be within its rights (d)  — (use an infinitive phrase to post modify the verb) for the execution of two collaborators. But it is quite clear to us that Pakistan always tries to erase its past history. To erase (e)  — (use a demonstrative to pre-modify  the noun) history is not easy because history continues to follow all of us. Pakistan, (f) — (post modify the noun with an appositive), cannot come out of its military influence. As a result. the country has become (g) — (use an intensifier to pre-modify the adjective) barbarous. So Pakistan is going down (h) — (use an adverb to post-modify the verb). The founder of Pakistan Jinnah was physically (i)  — (use an intensifier to pre-modify the adjective) weak and so the state always tried to show its physical strength since (j)  — (use a possessive to pre- modify the noun) birth.

 

Answer

 

8.         (a) very            (b) his   

            (c) to eat   

            (d) missing  (e) one     

            (f) legged  

            (g) Becoming  

            (h) to fire        

            (i) resting   

            (j) standing

 

9.         (a) the great leader of the black people   

            (b) multi-racial   

            (c) an               (d) three  

            (e) never         

            (f) People’s   (g) civil               (h) win   

            (i) race             (j) most

 

10.   (a) strongly   

            (b) notorious  

            (c) Pakistani  

            (d) to protest  

            (e) that  

            (f) a country that is mostly ruled by Army   (g) very  

            (h) gradually    (i) very    (j) its

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